Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-07-30

COUNTRY LIFE AND WORK.
EGYPTIAN SERENADE.
Sing again the song you sung
When we were together young
When there were but you and
nderneath the summer sky.
Sing the song and DER and DER
Though know that nevermore
VIII 1t seem the song you sung
When We were together young.
-GEoRaE WILLIAM CURTIS.
MISS LILY WHITES PARTY.
.May go to Miss Lily Whites partyY'
But grandmamma shook her head:
"When the birds 60 to rest,
/ think it is best
For mine to go, too, ssshe said
'Can't go to Miss Lilywhite's party?''
Still grandmamma shook her head:
Dear child, tell me how,
You're half asleep now;
Don't ask such a thing she said.
Then that little ones laughter grew hearty;
"Why, granny" she said,
"doing to Miss Lilywhites party
Means going to bedP'
-IGEoReE COOPER in ST. Nicholas for July.
QUATRAINS.
THE OFFICES OF LOVE.
Age rocks the cradle till the balm Of sleep
EUpon the lily lids of Childhood lies,
Youth guides the tottering step adown the steep
OF life ane gently CLOSETS Ages eyes.
K1sMET.
Some lives are like day with rose-hued morn,
Bright noon, and eve Of amber-tinted skies.
And some like to day midst tempest born,
And gloom enshrouded till in storm It dies.
WOMAN.
A woman's heart with kindly pity CLOVIS,
And quickly shows the sympathy it feels,
She drops the tear of grief for others woes
And with smile her own heartache conceals.
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
He who would grind his fellows meath his feet,
Would bully, tyrannize, and overbesr,
Some day will with stronger tyrant meet
And be compelled his CALLING yoke to wear.
Boston Courier
PARSONAGE FARMS.
Country clergymen are generally so
poorly paid that they would be justified
in organizing a strike and to refuse to
preach, to perform the marriage cere-
mony or to christen children until their
salaries were increased and more
promptly paid. In colonial times,
wrote Ben: Perley Poore shortly before
his death, and far into the present CEN
tury, every country parish had it's par
sonage farm and its parsonage house,
where the officiating clergyman found
healthful home for his family and
himself. The farm was the model farm
of the neighborhood. and agricultural
experiments were tried there, while the
male population turned out for half a
day at planting time, hoeing. haying
and harvesting to help the minister.
The laborer was worthy of his hire-a
free will offering.
Then there were the annual donation
parties. Bags of flour and of meal,
hams, salt meat, winter butter, and
other household supplies from the excess
of the farmers abundance were poured
nto the parsonage with free and liberal
hand, filling pantry and cellar and
making the good clergyman's heart
sing for joy. But alas! the increased
cash value of produce has dried up this
source of supply, and country people
now generally imagine that if they
comply with the terms of their money
contract they have done their duty to
their spiritual overseer, so that where
the custom of paying "donation visits"
still continues, it is usually but hol-
low mockery of past abundance-a thin
device to entrap an entertainment out
of confding clergyman.
l am glad to learn that in quite q
number of rural towns religious soci-
cites are purchasing parsonage farms,
and indentifying themselves with their
clergymen, who will, it is to be hoped,
be SO well pleased with them that they
will not be looking after greener pas
lures.
FEEDING WHEAT.
Thefollowingis nglish and Scotch ex-
periencein feeding: Mr.. Babcock, of Sto-
gumber, says: I grind the wheat to fine
meal. Atpresent lam feeding 10 beasts
on grass, with half peck day, mix
ed with straw chaff, and cart horses re-
.ceive one-third peck each per day, and
schaff with grass. When I take my
horses in the house I shall give one
peck of meal and two pecks of oats
mixed with chaff, and few cut man
;golds to every three horses per day. T
do not give it to hack horses. Fatting